"not from the generosity of the state, but from the hand of God"

Smitty at The Other McCain blog give us four suggestions about how to react to what he sees as the death throes of Progressivism:
1. Avoid being drawn solely into the moment.
2. Don't lose sight of compassion.
3. Don't expect it to end soon.
4. Yawn at appeals to foolish authority.

The link to the flesh of his insights is here: http://theothermccain.com/2011/10/17/they-truly-hate-liberty/

Smitty also links to a blog where I found this video of JFK saying that "the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state, but from the hand of God." That blog is here: http://markinspokane.blogspot.com/2011/10/sad-state-of-conservative.html

Here is one of the paragraphs at today's post at the blog Ordered Liberty:

Without that understanding, it becomes very hard not to fall into tyranny. Virtually every modern society that has abandoned that premise has eventually moved away from the notion of individual rights and toward the twin notions of social engineering and government control. Freedom for its own sake is license. Freedom bounded by custom & tradition grounded in the Judeo-Christian experience & the concept of the rule of law is ordered liberty. And ordered liberty is the only kind of freedom that doesn't eventually degenerate into tyranny or chaos.